A R T S A N T A F E
The 12th Annual Art Santa Fe this past weekend showcased more than 30 international galleries representing both celebrated and emerging contemporary artists. I decided to focus my camera on the Japanese art...it beckoned.
Photographs by C. Whitney-Ward
Anjin Abe
Abe (pronounced ah-bay) is one Japan's secret treasures of
traditional wood-fired Bizen pottery.
Heis Gallery - Fukuoka, Japan
Ryuma Imai
Emamel and Acrylic on Paper
Heis Gallery - Fukuoka, Japan
WAA KITAYABU
Zen like drawings made with millions of pencil stokes...
" I draw a picture with only one pencil.
I believe that soul dwells in one drawn
line. "
Systema Gallery - Osaka, Japan
KATSU ISHIDA
Japanese ink on paper
Systema Gallery - Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama
Silk screened and "painted" with glitter.
Watanabe Fine Art - Osaka, Japan
Yayoi Kusama
A wildly eccentric and successful Japanese pop artist (she's 83) profiled above in W Magazine. A retrospective of her work is at the Whitney Museum of American Art
through September 30th, 2012.
Yasuo Jo
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Watanabe Fine Art - Osaka, Japan
Hiroshi Nomoto
Abstract Metal Sculpture - versed in nature
Gallery Sudoh - Kanagawa, Japan
And a special thanks to Santa Fean Eiko Miki
who guided me through the show.
who guided me through the show.
